Courage

Film Screening

March 30, 2022 6:00 PM
March 30, 2022 7:30 PM
Three actors from an underground theatre in Minsk are caught up in the wake of mass protests during the Belarussian presidential elections. Courage accompanies the brave and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis, before and during the protests, and offers personal and deep insights into Belarus today.
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film screening
Three actors from an underground theatre in Minsk are caught up in the wake of mass protests during the Belarussian presidential elections. Courage accompanies the brave and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis, before and during the protests, and offers personal and deep insights into Belarus today.

Three actors from an underground theatre in Minsk are caught up in the wake of mass protests during the Belarussian presidential elections. They demand freedom of speech and a long-awaited change of power, but are brutally shut down by the regime‘s security apparatus. The country is on the brink of civil war. Courage accompanies the brave and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis, before and during the protests, and offers personal and deep insights into Belarus today.

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Courage
Germany, 2021
documentary, 90 min
Belarusian, Russian, with Hungarian and English subtitles.

Film Info
Director: Aliaksei Paluyan
Producer: Jörn Möllenkamp
Editor: Behrooz Karamizade
Writer: Aliaksei Paluyan
Cinematography: Tanya Haurylchyk, Jesse Mazuch
Sound: Vensan Mazmanyan
Production info: Living Pictures Production
Distribution info: Rise and Shine Anja Dziersk anja.dziersk@riseandshine-berlin.de http://www.riseandshine-berlin.de
Awards: Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2021 Amnesty International Poland Special Mention
Dokufest 2021 Human Rights Award Nominee

Director
Aliaksei Paluyan was born 1989 in Belarus. In 2012 he moved to Germany and studied film and television directing at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (Academy for the Arts). In 2019, his short fiction drama Lake of Happiness, a German-Belarusian-Spanish co-production, premiered in Clermont-Ferrand, won numerous awards at international festivals, was a candidate for European Short Film Award at the 33rd European Film Awards in 2020 and was also longlisted for the Oscars in 2021. Courage is his documentary film debut.

The film will be screened with Hungarian and English subtitles. Registration is required.

The program is part of the fearless program series organized by Blinken OSA and Freeszfe Association.